Director on the GoPro board. Member of the Nominations and Governance committee.

I run the Marketing Science, Product Marketing and Solutions Engineering organizations in Snapchat, working to define our go-to market, measurement and attribution, and partner-client integration strategies for marketers on the platform. Our remit is monetization of the entire Snapchat application.

I ran an 800+ person global organization that sat in between the product and engineering portion of Meta Inc, providing business inputs into our products. The other half of the organization sat within our business group, providing go-to-market packages for clients and partners, large and small. I reported to the Chief Business Officer of the company.Our remit was the Facebook service, Instagram, and other products in the Facebook portfolio.

Hired to grow long-standing media and consumer electronics company into new sectors including VR, mobile devices, and immersive three-dimensional audio.Built a consumer products unit to deploy portfolio IP directly to consumers in the cinematic sound space.Member of the board of directors, hired company's first Chief Technical Officer, Chief Revenue Officer, heads of Business and Consumer products, and reorganized company to put it on the path to success. Evolved HR functions into a People-oriented business focused on attracting, hiring and retaining the best talent in the Bay Area. Hired full-time general counsel. Led sale of company to Razer Ltd. one year after arrival, providing successful exit to LucasFilm Ltd. (owned by Disney) and a private equity ownership. Pre-sale, created an IP portfolio assessment matrix for assisting in company valuation.THX has staff in San Francisco, Detroit, Ontario, Beijing and Tokyo.Partners with certified products include Panasonic, Onkyo, Logitech, Razer, Klipsch, Cinemark, and Beyoncé.

Headed global teams charged with developing virtual MSO, social, entertainment and sports services and applications for Samsung's interactive television platforms. Staff were split between the United States and Korea.Services deployed on the 2014, 2015 and 2016 TV sets on a global basis. (Samsung is the number one seller of TV sets globally.)Closed the acquisition of Pixel, an interactive service firm, in Summer 2014. Lead the firm's choice of an ACR (automatic content recognition) partner.

Consumer-facing web service for media aggregation, social value and social traffic acquisition for media. Overseeing strategy, business development, operations and product development of a eight-person New York-based startup. The site, the API, and the iPhone App have been public for over three years. Closed venture financing in March 2010.Became a part of Samsung Electronics in October 2012.

Digital strategy and leading product development and management efforts for websites that totaled 46 million unique visitors/month. My 45-person team was able to grow traffic to those sites by 15% over a 20-month period. Staff includes product developers, managers, designers, developers and software engineers. Strategy includes acquisition appraisal and product strategy. Key products: MTV Music, MTV API and MTV Video Facebook Application.

Responsible for digital strategy, digital product development, management and user experience across MTV, VH1, CMT, and Logo web sites. Directly overseeing a team of 14 product developers and 15 engineers, with dotted-line oversight of the product developers at each affiliated music brand.Built REST content API for MTV Networks, and launched content recommendations for MTV Networks as a prelude to advertising segmentation. Launched the first instance of social networking for Viacom, on MTV.com, as well as Facebook applications for MTV. Additional products include a white-label widget framework (built on top of the REST API), and several TV-show-related social networking verticals (e.g. flavorofloveworld.com), improvements to site search (and reduction of broken searches across the division.)Re-launched the MTV.com website in April of 2007, with a slate of continuous site improvements and community features added since that time.

Responsible for IP video product management across the TV, PC, connected device and mobile distribution platforms, and the search and discovery applications for those platforms. Developed all-company search and video products, including Electronic Programming Guides (EPGs) for the television set, mobile phone, and high-speed internet group. Business development for Web 2.0 features as they apply to cable. Headed up company industrial design efforts (mobile phones, remote controls, set-top boxes). Executed deals for media recommendations and social networks for the television, web and mobile for the corporation. Product owner, Comcast Emerging Networks, an IP television platform.Developed the first DHTML-Ajax web application, TV Planner, deployed by any cable company in Europe or the Americas. Executed deals with ChoiceStream for cross-platform recommendations for the entire company, across TV, broadband and mobile.

Strategic and business development for consumer and commercial high-speed data including content programming and applications. Cross-functional liaison with Advanced Engineering, Cable Engineering and New Media Development groups. Cross-company user-interface coordinator for television (electronic programming guides, VOD interfaces), PC, and mobile products. Executed deals with T-Mobile, Match.com, Expedia, and CitySearch for deployment on the Comcast broadband portal. Developed WiFi, gaming, instant messaging, subscriber music services, subscriber video services, and content products. Additionally, deployed the first free public Wi-Fi hotspot by Comcast and T-Mobile in Philadelphia.

Oversaw strategic content programming and creative direction for interactive applications, portals, and virtual channels as well as the tools for these features. Clients were Network Operators (e.g. Comcast, Echostar, Cablevision), television broadcasters and traditional content providers.Became a part of Comcast Communications in 2005.

Attended a certificate course in the UK for cooking during a sabbatical.

Oversaw and provided content strategy and creative vision for creative staff in the creation and maintenance of a high-speed broadband Internet network. Responsible for content strategy, creative vision, overall user interface and channel design for the PC service; responsible for creative vision, channel design and motion behavior for television set-top box version of the service. Managed a team of 30 designers, technical designers, video designers and editors.Responsible for the creation of the first three widely-deployed broadband portals in the world. Grew the company from zero to one million broadband subscribers in two years.Market capitalization of $28.5B the day I left the firm.

Co-taught a seminar for graduate students in the Journalism School on the subject of informational graphics. Course materials included books by Edward Tufte on "Envisioning Information" and Donald Norman, on "The Psychology of Everyday Things." Students were required to produce informational graphics and visual news assessments that approximated the work put out by the New York Times and others.

Visual and textual reporting, writing, and information design for the Monday Information Industries section of the newspaper. Beat reporting coverage includes new media, computer animation, interface design, and video gaming. Additional areas of coverage included Europe and Asia. Covered the Los Angeles riots, the Oklahoma City bombing, the siege in Waco, TX, the Balkan conflict, led database visualization efforts.